I agree that rents are high compared to the average earning, but different places have different costs. For instance I live near Catania (it is not really Catania but very close, where half of the people that work in Catania live, in the little towns in the Etna side), and I pay 450 euros per month for an 80 square meters house (not very big but mid-size for here), with even furnitures and so forth.
Catania is not Milano and here we are in Sicily, but on the other side this is among the most costly places in Sicily, and at 10 Km from where I live there are tens of gyms, 1 Apple Store, a few very big cinemas and plenty of commercial centers and so forth.
Btw here there are a great number of programers, surely not less programmers than in the rest of Italy in average.
So the question could be, what is blocking the south where costs are much more reasonable from entering the startups business? I guess that cultural factors have the most weight...
Catania is not Milano and here we are in Sicily, but on the other side this is among the most costly places in Sicily, and at 10 Km from where I live there are tens of gyms, 1 Apple Store, a few very big cinemas and plenty of commercial centers and so forth.
Btw here there are a great number of programers, surely not less programmers than in the rest of Italy in average.
So the question could be, what is blocking the south where costs are much more reasonable from entering the startups business? I guess that cultural factors have the most weight...